Today was our first day sightseeing in Lima, the capital. Downtown was very interesting today. When we got close to the Plaza de Armas (only a block from our hotel) there were lines of police with their clear plexiglass riot gear in hand blocking the street. They had the whole city main square closed down because they were having some kind of protest which we could hear once we were in the square. They gladly let us in, but there were hundreds of police in the square milling around looking a little tense. The square was closed to traffic, and they weren't letting anyone hang around so there were just a few tourists, locals and tons of police because they wouldn't let anyone else in. We toured two churches (one of which had catacombs underneath with the bones from 25,000 people all organized in pits by bone type and the other had the bones of Saint Rose in it!) and went to the central market. We also toured a museum about food in Perú. We also watched the changing of the guard in front of the National Palace. All in all, my feet are tired. Tomorrow we are going to spend the morning in Lima and head to Pisco to go to Las Islas Ballestras (called the poor man's Galapagos Islands). -Michele
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